Tale of a Travel Martyr
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 09.09.03 | 1:17 AM ET
September’s GQ features a terrific story by Michael Paterniti about a man who “lives” at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. The story is unavailable online, but its first sentence is. In fact, Village Voice media critic Cynthia Cotts features it in her annual celebration of great magazine ledes. Here it is: “He is a man without a country, a family and a home. For more than a decade, Merhan Nasseri has been living in Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport, waiting. For what, he doesn’t know anymore.”